Sudden Influx of Spam Topics

@Sweep said:

@Marino said:

On it. Not the worst ever, though.

Porn spam outranks football spam.

It's not even football spam. It's American Football spam.

Real Football Spam.

Making us green names look bad.

Off-topic: You guys know where I could find a live stream of Buffalo Bills vs Cleveland Browns?

I've never seen so much spam at once. This just made the need for anti-bot account protection staggeringly obvious.

@Sweep said:

@Marino said:

On it. Not the worst ever, though.

Porn spam outranks football spam.

It's not even football spam. It's American Football spam.

Is that better or worse than Aussie Rules Football spam? Arena Football spam? XFL spam?

@TooWalrus said:

It's incredible how they found a way to let you download a game that hasn't even started yet. I better just click this phat "DOWNLOAD NOW" button...

Seems legit.

@Marino: While you were posting that I just deleted another spam account. We should start keeping score or somethin...

Just flag the topics or send a PM to the mod team.

But as it stands right now this is a fairly tame spam attack. Not like back in 09 when the Porn Wars erupted....

@Sweep said:

@Marino said:

On it. Not the worst ever, though.

Porn spam outranks football spam.

It's not even football spam. It's American Football spam.

Is that better or worse than Aussie Rules Football spam? Arena Football spam? XFL spam?

@Sweep said:

@Marino said:

On it. Not the worst ever, though.

Porn spam outranks football spam.

It's not even football spam. It's American Football spam.

Is that better or worse than Aussie Rules Football spam? Arena Football spam? XFL spam?

My favorite so far was "How do I watch Cowboys vs Bucs on my iPad?" or something like that, which was posted to the Halo 4 forums.

Although I'm very disappointed no one gave me those emergency powers. I had big plans for the forums...

@Hamz said:

Just flag the topics or send a PM to the mod team.

But as it stands right now this is a fairly tame spam attack. Not like back in 09 when the Porn Wars erupted....

I wasn't here. How bad was that? Also:

@Chavtheworld said:

Has anyone looked at the account creation page recently? Is there any form of Captcha or anything? Cause these are clearly all bots. It's been so long since I made my account I can't remember if GB has any validation but shiiit they need to step it up.

Plus, as I've said for so long they should just ban new users from making threads so they couldn't mess up the front page like this. Just make it a post requirement or whatever. It doesn't even matter that much.

@Hizang said:

I flagged a bunch, but ran out.

These things come and go, I really wish instead of locking these threads they would just get deleted though. Same with all locked threads, just delete them.

They are deleting them, hence the ones with the blank "last post" which 404 when you click em.

I agree with the obnoxiously large text here, is there a particular reason why we can't have a 5-post limit on creating threads like we have a 5 post a day limit for new users?

@pyromagnestir said:

Although I'm very disappointed no one gave me those emergency powers. I had big plans for the forums...

I love how all the spam bots are getting this quest:

If you prove to be a consistently awesome member of the community, it's likely a staff or moderator might check out your profile. If they do, you'll complete this quest.

@Guided_By_Tigers: Ahhhh! For whatever reason that didn't count as a reply to me, so I had no idea it would be there. Of course, part of my plan was that picture would be included anytime anyone posted anything.

Da BEARS!

@Chavtheworld said:

Has anyone looked at the account creation page recently? Is there any form of Captcha or anything? Cause these are clearly all bots. It's been so long since I made my account I can't remember if GB has any validation but shiiit they need to step it up.

Giant Bomb does indeed use a Captcha system. It's just that all you need is one person to fill that stuff in and then the account is free to follow its automated protocol.

@ZombiePie: I thought accounts can only post 5 times a day until they hit 25 posts? Why are some of these going over 5?

@Baillie said:

@ZombiePie: I thought accounts can only post 5 times a day until they hit 25 posts? Why are some of these going over 5?

They timed it just right at around 11:50 pm. meaning they were able to get two days worth of posting. One for yesterday and one, technically, for today.

@Baillie said:

@ZombiePie: I thought accounts can only post 5 times a day until they hit 25 posts? Why are some of these going over 5?

Inside job.

Their all fans of the xbox. Coincidence? Maybe.

@ZombiePie said:

@Baillie said:

@ZombiePie: I thought accounts can only post 5 times a day until they hit 25 posts? Why are some of these going over 5?

They timed it just right at around 11:50 pm. meaning they were able to get two days worth of posting. One for yesterday and one, technically, for today.

Woah. these guys know how to spam. I might enroll.

@shermanatorek said:

Their all fans of the xbox. Coincidence? Maybe.

I imagine it's because that's the default alignment.

Goofus watches illegal sports streams and spams them all over websites.

Gallant flags these threads and calls Goofus a motherfucker.

GAMEBOMB.RU, THIS MEANS WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ZombiePie said:

@Chavtheworld said:

Has anyone looked at the account creation page recently? Is there any form of Captcha or anything? Cause these are clearly all bots. It's been so long since I made my account I can't remember if GB has any validation but shiiit they need to step it up.

Giant Bomb does indeed use a Captcha system. It's just that all you need is one person to fill that stuff in and then the account is free to follow its automated protocol.

Ah good to know. Yeah you just need a few people to do em. Hmm.

@believer258: Ahaha sorry about that, whenever I post that idea it gets ignored and it annoys me!

@Video_Game_King: Really? I wonder why Neutral isn't the default alignment.

@shermanatorek said:

@Video_Game_King: Really? I wonder why Neutral isn't the default alignment.

No neutral is in fact the default alignment for all new accounts. That means these bots are manually selecting "Xbox" for their alignments...that's odd.

If we make it where you would need a certain post limit to make threads, then couldn't they just spam the already made threads anyways?

@Sweep: You can't not love Dave.

@SexyToad said:

If we make it where you would need a certain post limit to make threads, then couldn't they just spam the already made threads anyways?

Of course, but then the front page wouldn't be filled with spam topic names and you'd have to dig through all the pages of a thread to see that spam. By being on the front page it's making the site look immediately poor to new users.

i liked the forums better when they were about live streaming football games

@ZombiePie: I knew it! Fanboys always ruining everything.

@pyromagnestir said:

Make me vice chancellor and give me the emergency powers and I will crush this invasion!

I like this plan. We should do this. I'm sure everything will work out fine.

@Swoxx said:

It's IGN guys.

The war has started.

Gregg Miller is going down! TO ARMS MEN!

@Sarumarine said:

@pyromagnestir said:

Make me vice chancellor and give me the emergency powers and I will crush this invasion!

I like this plan. We should do this. I'm sure everything will work out fine.

Hey, lets calm down, we are smarter than the characters in the Star Wars universe.....unless pyromagnestir spammed the forums to get absolute control!!! You monster!!!

Her they come again. Someone needs to get the top men on it.

Yes, I agree. We need a thread creation requirement - maybe 25 or 50 posts. Weeds out everything and you don't even need to insert captcha on the login system.

@Nightriff said:

@Sarumarine said:

@pyromagnestir said:

Make me vice chancellor and give me the emergency powers and I will crush this invasion!

I like this plan. We should do this. I'm sure everything will work out fine.

Hey, lets calm down, we are smarter than the characters in the Star Wars universe.....unless pyromagnestir spammed the forums to get absolute control!!! You monster!!!

YOU CAN'T PROVE A THING!

@Brodehouse said:

So... We don't have an anti-robot script for signing up new accounts? I can't even buy products without having to prove I'm human, but robots can get thread creation priviledges?

The truly exciting spam operations have humans creating accounts and then the accounts get turned over to robot scripts once they're past the CAPTCHA.

@Jeff said:

@Brodehouse said:

So... We don't have an anti-robot script for signing up new accounts? I can't even buy products without having to prove I'm human, but robots can get thread creation priviledges?

The truly exciting spam operations have humans creating accounts and then the accounts get turned over to robot scripts once they're past the CAPTCHA.

Robots and humans working together in a symbiotic relationship. It's like that ending of that popular game.

@pyromagnestir said:

@Nightriff said:

@Sarumarine said:

@pyromagnestir said:

Make me vice chancellor and give me the emergency powers and I will crush this invasion!

I like this plan. We should do this. I'm sure everything will work out fine.

Hey, lets calm down, we are smarter than the characters in the Star Wars universe.....unless pyromagnestir spammed the forums to get absolute control!!! You monster!!!

YOU CAN'T PROVE A THING!

Damn he's right, next thing you know the Mods are taken out and we are under Pyromagnestir's Spam rule, FUCK!!!

@Brodehouse said:

@Jeff said:

@Brodehouse said:

So... We don't have an anti-robot script for signing up new accounts? I can't even buy products without having to prove I'm human, but robots can get thread creation priviledges?

The truly exciting spam operations have humans creating accounts and then the accounts get turned over to robot scripts once they're past the CAPTCHA.

Robots and humans working together in a symbiotic relationship. It's like that ending of that popular game.

Matrix Revolutions is the title you are looking for

@Jeff: What a time we live in, where spam is no longer about counterfeit goods but rather pirate internet streams!

I miss the funny spam. I still bust a chuckle gland reading that one about free online Sonic games.

They're baaaaaaaaack.

They're baaaaaaaaack.

@Marino said:

@Sweep said:

@Marino said:

On it. Not the worst ever, though.

Porn spam outranks football spam.

It's not even football spam. It's American Football spam.

Is that better or worse than Aussie Rules Football spam? Arena Football spam? XFL spam?

Guys. Lingerie Football spam.

@Brodehouse said:

@Jeff said:

@Brodehouse said:

So... We don't have an anti-robot script for signing up new accounts? I can't even buy products without having to prove I'm human, but robots can get thread creation priviledges?

The truly exciting spam operations have humans creating accounts and then the accounts get turned over to robot scripts once they're past the CAPTCHA.

Robots and humans working together in a symbiotic relationship. It's like that ending of that popular game.

The one with the robot?

@TooWalrus said:

@Swoxx said:

They're baaaaaaaaack.

Guys, I got this hot tip on were we can watch the amazing football game between *insert country you have never heard of* and *insert country you have never heard of*. I can't wait to watch them!

I just came on on my break from work to see if there were any interesting threads to pop into and literally the entire front page was nothing but spam and those incredibly annoying locked/stickied threads THAT NEVER GO AWAY!